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Compound histories : materials, governance, and production, 1760-1840 / edited by Lissa Roberts, Simon Werrett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural dynamics of science ; 2.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9004325565
  • 9789004325562
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Compound historiesDDC classification:
  • 660.0944/09033 23
LOC classification:
  • TP155
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: "A More Intimate Acquaintance" / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett -- 1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry / Simon Werrett -- 2 The Case of Coal / Lissa L. Roberts and Joppe van Driel -- 3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800 / Marie Th�ebaud-Sorger -- 4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton's Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808) / Elena Serrano -- 5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Jos�e Ram�on Bertomeu S�anchez -- 6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of Ceruse / Christine Lehman -- 7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830 / Thomas Le Roux -- 8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch Empire / Andreas Weber -- 9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris �Ecole de pharmacie During Vauquelin's Direction, 1803-1829 / Sacha Tomic -- 10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics / Bernadette Bensaude Vincent -- 11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England / Frank A.J.L. James -- 12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 -- c.1840: Sites, Production and Networks / Anna Simmons -- 13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860 / John R.R. Christie -- 14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840 / Robert G.W. Anderson -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett.
Summary: A history of chemical developments and their impacts on technology and society in France, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe.
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A history of chemical developments and their impacts on technology and society in France, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe.

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction: "A More Intimate Acquaintance" / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett -- 1 Household Oeconomy and Chemical Inquiry / Simon Werrett -- 2 The Case of Coal / Lissa L. Roberts and Joppe van Driel -- 3 Capturing the Invisible: Heat, Steam and Gases in France and Great Britain, 1750-1800 / Marie Th�ebaud-Sorger -- 4 Spreading the Revolution: Guyton's Fumigating Machine in Spain. Politics, Technology, and Material Culture (1796-1808) / Elena Serrano -- 5 Arsenic in France. The Cultures of Poison During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Jos�e Ram�on Bertomeu S�anchez -- 6 Relations between the State and the Chemical Industry in France, 1760-1800: The Case of Ceruse / Christine Lehman -- 7 Between Industry and the Environment: Chemical Governance in France, 1770-1830 / Thomas Le Roux -- 8 Renegotiating Debt: Chemical Governance and Money in the Early Nineteenth-Century Dutch Empire / Andreas Weber -- 9 How to Govern Chemical Courses. The Case of the Paris �Ecole de pharmacie During Vauquelin's Direction, 1803-1829 / Sacha Tomic -- 10 Teaching Chemistry in the French Revolution: Pedagogy, Materials and Politics / Bernadette Bensaude Vincent -- 11 The Subversive Humphry Davy: Aristocracy and Establishing Chemical Research Laboratories in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England / Frank A.J.L. James -- 12 Wholesale Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in London, c.1760 -- c.1840: Sites, Production and Networks / Anna Simmons -- 13 Chemical Glasgow and its Entrepreneurs, 1760-1860 / John R.R. Christie -- 14 Relations between Industry and Academe in Scotland, and the Case of Dyeing: 1760 to 1840 / Robert G.W. Anderson -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources / Lissa L. Roberts and Simon Werrett.

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